SCDSS v. James

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THIS OPINION HAS NO PRECEDENTIAL VALUE. IT SHOULD NOT BE CITED OR RELIED ON AS PRECEDENT IN ANY PROCEEDING EXCEPT AS PROVIDED BY RULE 268(d)(2), SCACR. THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA In The Court of Appeals South Carolina Department of Social Services, Respondent, v. Ericka James, Terrell Edwards, Anthony Dandy, Michael Martin, Danny Wofford, Shannon Shippy, Cecile Brannon, Eyvonne Lynch, Allen Lynch, and Cornelia Smith, Defendants, Of whom Ericka James is the Appellant. In the interest of minors under the age of eighteen. Appellate Case No. 2020-000151 Appeal From Spartanburg County Phillip K. Sinclair, Family Court Judge Unpublished Opinion No. 2020-UP-330 Submitted November 19, 2020 – Filed December 3, 2020 AFFIRMED Heather Vry Scalzo, of Byford & Scalzo, LLC, of Greenville, for Appellant. Robert C. Rhoden, III, of the South Carolina Department of Social Services, of Spartanburg, for Respondent. Wendy Nicole Griffith, of Talley Law Firm, P.A., of Spartanburg, for the Guardians ad Litem. PER CURIAM: Ericka James appeals a permanency planning order concerning her minor children. See S.C. Code Ann. § 63-7-1700 (Supp. 2019). Upon a thorough review of the record and the family court's findings of fact and conclusions of law pursuant to Ex parte Cauthen, 291 S.C. 465, 354 S.E.2d 381 (1987), we find no meritorious issues warrant briefing.1 Accordingly, we affirm the family court's ruling and relieve James's counsel. AFFIRMED.2 HUFF, WILLIAMS, and GEATHERS, JJ., concur. 1 See also S.C. Dep't of Soc. Servs. v. Downer, S.C. Sup. Ct. Order dated Feb. 2, 2005 (expanding the Cauthen procedure to situations when "an indigent person appeals from an order imposing other measures short of termination of parental rights"). 2 We decide this case without oral argument pursuant to Rule 215, SCACR.

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